Is this game dead?

I just downloaded it again yesterday, died four times all before level 10 and came here for some tips on HCE beginning and the forum has two days full of bots and most posts are from months ago. Runic had to have made a killing off this game, yet no updates, no news, no nothing... What happened?

I thought maybe this game could re-ignite my missing desire of 9.5 years of Diablo II because I can't seem to find anything that comes close....

Things that Diablo II did right :

Loot farming was always fun, it was easy to get a good character, hard to get a perfect one.
Each class felt to their own, nothing was really mix matched, each class wasn't trying to be more than they should be, a barbarian was a barbarian, a druid was a druid, a sorc was a sorc.
There was VLLD, LLD, MLD, Regular Duelz, **** there was even Open Realm Hacked Duelz to see who had the biggest E-Peen.
There were glitches but they were fun! Teleporting in to black space for example!
Skills were also fun, leaping to places other people couldn't go, nova sorc's in 1.09 melting cows, FOrb sorc's in 1.10, hurricane druids, feral druids, trapsins, multishot amazon, strafezon, auradin, you could make what you wanted and succeed if you tried hard enough.

Why can a game that old still have a following but this game is two years old and the forums are dead? All I want is basically D II wrapped up in new graphics, a dungeon crawler that was mid-fast paced where you blew stuff up and got awesome loot, something that I could play for a couple hours here and there and have fun.

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The spam is a problem but in spite of that there are people who check these forums at semi-regular intervals even if they don't post (there is not much to post about). If you have actual questions go ahead and ask them.

If you want D2 wrapped in shiny coat, I'm afraid you won't find it. The game feels different, because it is.

The forums are not exactly dead, so any actual questions will be answered, quite fast probably. I wouldn't recommend HCE from the get-go though, the game is, unlike Diablo, stupid hard on the first playthrough on Elite.

Then the closest you're going to get is D3. They've made a ton of improvements. It's really a rather fun game to play. I loved Diablo II but what made it special was the particular group who made it and the conditions they made it under as well as the time period they made it in. You're never going to see the likes of it again. That being said there are a lot of people out there who play this. Have you posted here before? Tried finding people to play with here or on Reddit or on the Steam forums? Gotten your friends into it? Can't wait for the party to come to you. Get out there and look.

That and D2 has the same kind of following. Most people play it single player or with the same folks they've been playing it with since forever. There aren't a ton of folks playing it online anymore and haven't been for awhile.

Then the closest you're going to get is D3. They've made a ton of improvements. It's really a rather fun game to play. I loved Diablo II but what made it special was the particular group who made it and the conditions they made it under as well as the time period they made it in. You're never going to see the likes of it again. That being said there are a lot of people out there who play this. Have you posted here before? Tried finding people to play with here or on Reddit or on the Steam forums? Gotten your friends into it? Can't wait for the party to come to you. Get out there and look.

That and D2 has the same kind of following. Most people play it single player or with the same folks they've been playing it with since forever. There aren't a ton of folks playing it online anymore and haven't been for awhile.

Different strokes for different folks. I find the graphics in Diablo 3 boring as there is too much gray and brown and black as the entire thing is just dirt and sand and stone and mud and it is not very appealing (and then when you get Act 4 "heaven" is yellow and white and equally boring and on top of that sterile). When I want to relax with a game that's not what I want to look at. Torchlight at least gives me pretty colors without overdoing it. Stylized "cartoony" graphics age better because texture resolution and polygon count are less of relevant when you aren't trying to be super HD realistic in the first place.

Most people who ask the question in the OP seem to base it on how many online games they see. But in my opinion, if you count the offline single-player games which you can't see, I'd say no this game isn't dead.

I just downloaded it again yesterday, died four times all before level 10 and came here for some tips on HCE beginning and the forum has two days full of bots and most posts are from months ago. Runic had to have made a killing off this game, yet no updates, no news, no nothing... What happened?

I thought maybe this game could re-ignite my missing desire of 9.5 years of Diablo II because I can't seem to find anything that comes close....

Things that Diablo II did right :

Loot farming was always fun, it was easy to get a good character, hard to get a perfect one.
Each class felt to their own, nothing was really mix matched, each class wasn't trying to be more than they should be, a barbarian was a barbarian, a druid was a druid, a sorc was a sorc.
There was VLLD, LLD, MLD, Regular Duelz, **** there was even Open Realm Hacked Duelz to see who had the biggest E-Peen.
There were glitches but they were fun! Teleporting in to black space for example!
Skills were also fun, leaping to places other people couldn't go, nova sorc's in 1.09 melting cows, FOrb sorc's in 1.10, hurricane druids, feral druids, trapsins, multishot amazon, strafezon, auradin, you could make what you wanted and succeed if you tried hard enough.

Why can a game that old still have a following but this game is two years old and the forums are dead? All I want is basically D II wrapped up in new graphics, a dungeon crawler that was mid-fast paced where you blew stuff up and got awesome loot, something that I could play for a couple hours here and there and have fun.

I love D II. I've been replaying it for the last month, and one thing I've come to realize is that without Bots it'll litarlly take you years to find half-way decent gear, and if you make it to Act 5 on NM without even decent gear you'll get raped. But I still love D II. And usually I play TL2 on Singleplayer but when I want to play with people I'll host a game and usually forget I'm even hosting until a person joins, then another. As of the last week, when I started a new char, there's been a whole page of games up.